Iris Acquisition II and Freedom Metals Corporation call off their merger
Iris Acquisition II terminated its merger agreement with Freedom Metals Corporation, a Metals & mining company.
The agreement was announced on Monday 9 March.
The briefTuesday, 25 August 2026Updated 23:59 GMT
What changed on 25 August 2026
- CMII Deal vote Wed 26 Aug · broker cutoff Mon 24 Aug
- POLE Redemption deadline Wed 26 Aug · broker cutoff Mon 24 Aug
- ALCYF Redemption deadline Fri 28 Aug · broker cutoff Wed 26 Aug
- POLE Extension vote Fri 28 Aug · broker cutoff Wed 26 Aug
- DRDB Outside date Mon 31 Aug · long-stop
- VACI Redemption deadline Mon 31 Aug · broker cutoff Thu 27 Aug
… and 6 more on the calendar.
A long-stop is the charter’s outside date for completing a combination. It pays nothing: the trust comes back only if no deal closes by then.
Deals
D. Boral Acquisition I Corp. and Exascale Labs Inc. call off their merger
D. Boral Acquisition I Corp. terminated its merger agreement with Exascale Labs Inc.
The agreement was announced on Wednesday 1 July.
Pasqal completes its listing through Bleichroeder Acquisition II
Bleichroeder Acquisition II completed its merger with Pasqal, an Information Technology company, at a headline value of $2B.
The agreement was announced on Saturday 28 February, and shareholders voted on Tuesday 25 August.
A $200M PIPE is recorded alongside the deal, though no filing we hold states it, and the combined company is to trade as PSQL.
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Bleichroeder Acquisition III to merge with Ursa Major Technologies, Inc. in a $1.6B deal
Bleichroeder Acquisition III agreed to merge with Ursa Major Technologies, Inc., an Industrials company, at a headline value of $1.6B.
The agreement was announced on Monday 24 August, and we hold no shareholder vote date for it yet.
In the filings
8-K filed 2026-08-25 — Quartzsea Acquisition Corp received a delisting notice from Nasdaq on August 19, 2026, for failing to pay $75,000 in fees under Listing Rule 5250(f),…
Why it matters: Investors face immediate liquidity risk due to the potential suspension of trading on August 28, 2026, which could impede the ability to redeem shares before the October 19, 2026 deadline if the delisting proceeds.
DEF 14A filed 2026-08-25 — deadline 2026-09-17→2027-03-17
vs prior DEF 14A 2026-02-26: deadline 2026-09-17→2027-03-17.
Why it matters: This is an extension vote, not a business combination vote. The redemption deadline is 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on September 13, 2026 (two business days before the September 15, 2026 stockholder meeting). Public stockholders may redeem shares for their pro rata portion of the Trust Account regardless of how they vote. The redemption price ….
- Cash in the trust account
- $10.9m$10.9m
- The company's own deadline
- 2026-09-172027-03-17
Both columns are filed figures, compared against the DEF 14A of Thursday 26 February. Cash behind each share is those two figures divided.
425 filed 2026-08-25 — Form 8-K Current Report and Rule 425 Written Communication announcing a Business Combination Agreement. FIRST, this document is a Form 8-K Current Re…
Why it matters: This filing materially dictates deal viability by contractually securing sponsor and seller voting compliance, anchoring completion to a hard $150,000,000 net cash threshold that directly links public trust liquidity to transaction success, and structuring a multi-year outside date with conditional extensions. The combined PIPE capital o….
Redemptions
Nothing to report. No new SEC-sourced redemption results were captured in this window.
New coverage
Now covered: Haymaker Acquisition Corp V
CIK 0002111838.
Status SEARCHING.
Source edgar-auto.
From the wire
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- Everli welcomes United Ventures to its Series C round
PR Newswireundated by the source · first seen Tue 25 Aug
- OpenMarkets Australia 2026 Company Profile
PitchBookundated by the source · first seen Tue 25 Aug
- cmca_8k.htm
SEC EDGARundated by the source · first seen Tue 25 Aug
- Openmarkets enters agreement to combine with Lake Superior Acquisition Corp
Nasdaqundated by the source · first seen Tue 25 Aug
- pgac_ex991.htm
SEC EDGARundated by the source · first seen Tue 25 Aug
- Vita Inclinata Technologies to Go Public Through SPAC Deal
MarketWatchundated by the source · first seen Tue 25 Aug
- SilverBox Corp IV Announces Letter of Intent with Parataxis Holdings to Bring Bitcoin-Native Capital Platform to Public Markets
SEC EDGARundated by the source · first seen Tue 25 Aug
- Parataxis Holdings LLC Announces Definitive Agreement with Bridge Biotherapeutics, Inc. (KOSDAQ: 288330), to Bring Institutionally-Backed, Bitcoin Treasury Company to the South Korean Public Markets
PR Newswireundated by the source · first seen Tue 25 Aug
How this brief is made
- Composed deterministically from stored primary-sourced rows — no LLM, no live fetching of facts, $0 per run.
- Trust NAV accreted at the 3-mo T-bill par yield 3.95% (treasury.gov, 2026-09-09); accreted values are ESTIMATES and labeled as such.
- Broker action dates count ~2 real NYSE trading days before the deadline (weekends and market holidays excluded) — still verify with your broker, whose cutoff may be earlier.
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- Items tagged "coverage" are database-ingestion events (a row was captured), not market events — the underlying facts may predate the window.
- Dated events are summarised on this page and never turned into an instruction. An outside date is the contractual long-stop: it pays nothing, and the trust comes back only if no combination closes. Where the record holds no dated redemption event either way, the page says so instead of assuming one.
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